How long is the metro ride to the neighborhood?
2024-12-17
The note pictured below reads ‘How long is the metro ride to the neighborhood? 5-10 minute ride?’ I wrote this note at the EYL40 European Young LeadersContinue Reading
5-Minute Neighborhood to 15-Minute City Realities
2024-12-09
This evening I walked with my daughter, for less than 60 seconds to where we (perhaps fortuitously) found her excellent thrice-per-week extracurricular activities. After dropping her off,Continue Reading
15-minute city workshop & lecture: Mendel University
2024-11-24
In April 2024, I delivered an online lecture and remote workshop about the 15-minute city concept and issues of walkability for students at Mendel University in Brno (Czechia), LandscapeContinue Reading
15-minute City Mental Mapping Reflection
2024-11-03
☕ 🗺 Sunday Morning ’15-minute city’ mapmaking reflection In Spring 2020, when I first heard about the 15-minute city concept, my family and I were living inContinue Reading
DUT Urban Lunch Talk: 15-Minute City & Community Engagement
2024-10-17
View on LinkedIn here // Graphic by DUT Looking forward to joining fellow guest panelists for this DUT Urban Lunch talk on October 23, 2024. -Annika DrivingContinue Reading
Photographing Walkability
2024-10-02
I’ve been photographing urbanism and city life for a couple of decades now. But it is really only in the past few years that I have begunContinue Reading
15-Minute City Reflection: From Lived Experience to Research
2024-09-16
Photographing built environment and city spaces was my ‘hook’ into urbanism 24 years ago when I moved to a bustling Pacific Northwestern city. It would be myContinue Reading
Chatting with Edmonton-based urban designer Robert Lipka
2024-08-07
Have an old-fashioned chat! 💡 What began as a misunderstanding (for me) under a post I uploaded on experiencing the 15-minute city lifestyle (in a city essentiallyContinue Reading
15-minute city research in Warsaw
2024-07-21
Graphic by my host institute and doctoral school (Anthropos Doctoral School, Polish Academy of Sciences) highlighting the topic of my dissertation research – ‘Walkable Urbanism as aContinue Reading
15-minute city realities
2024-05-27
I wrote the below in Örebro on May 27, 2020. I refer to this city often not because I love it, but it was while living thereContinue Reading